text: Some of these overlap.\n\nSorting by Weight:\n-------------------\n\n1. Baryons: heavy particles. They are always fermions, so have half integral spin. (protons and neutrons are baryons)\n\n2. Muons: medium weight particles (intermediate weight between lepton and baryons, such as muons, kaons, pions, etc)\n\n3. Leptons, light particles (neutrinos and electrons are leptons)\n\n\nSorting by Spin\n----------------\n\n1. Bosons: having integral spin and satisfying Bose-Einstein  statistics (helium-4 atoms and photons for example)\n\n2. fermions: having half integral spin and satisfying Fermi-Dirac statistics (electrons, protons, etc)\n\n\nCharacterization by Force Influence\n------------------------------------\n\nHadrons: subject to the strong force (protons and  neutrons for example). These are of two types: the baryons and the mesons (intermediate weight between lepton and baryons, such as muons, kaons, pions, etc)\n\n\n\nOf course, there is  HUGE amount of other information about these.